Age of Conan Character
Creation Guide

Character creation is quite possibly the
most important moment of your gaming career. Once you've set these
decisions in stone, it isn't so easy to go back and start over if you've found
you have made a poor first choice.

While you can't know for sure which race
and class combo you will mesh with perfectly, it does help to do just a bit of
research ahead of time. Age of Conan is NOT an all race/all class game, so
if you have been hoping to play a Stygian Conqueror, you are unfortunately out
of luck.

This Character Creation Guide will
assist you in your pre-planning. Here you will find an overview of each
race in game, screenshots of both the male and female character models, a brief
background, and the list of classes each race may play.

If you'd like to know more about any
given class listed here, please click on the class name and you'll be taken to a
class guide that will give you in depth information for each class.

I found Aquilonia in the grip of a pig like you 
one who traced his genealogy for a thousand years. The land was torn
with the wars of the barons, and the people cried out under suppression
and taxation. Today no Aquilonian noble dares maltreat the humblest of
my subjects, and the taxes of the people are lighter than anywhere else
in the world.

 The Scarlet Citadel, Robert E. Howard

The Aquilonians are a people divided behind a front of
unity, and threatened behind a show of dominance. Their kingdom, the
so-called Flower of the West, is the unrivalled jewel of Hyboria. It is
a land of prosperous cities, great wealth, enlightened culture, with a
king-sanctioned order of religious freedom, where no faith shall be
oppressed. Yet for all the kingdoms vaunted glories and despite the
actions of its popular monarch, King Conan I, it is a land where culture
clashes and the chaos of unrest always threaten the populace.

"Perhaps it's the land they live in," answered the king. "A gloomier
land never was all of hills, darkly wooded, under skies nearly always
gray, with winds moaning drearily down the valleys."

"Little wonder men grow moody there," quoth Prospero with a shrug of his
shoulders, thinking of the smiling sun-washed plains and blue lazy
rivers of Poitain, Aquilonia's southernmost province."

"They have no hope here or hereafter," answered Conan. "Their gods are
Crom and his dark race, who rule over a sunless place of everlasting
mist, which is the world of the dead. Mitra! The ways of the Æsir were
more to my liking."

The Phoenix on the Sword, Robert E. Howard

A shroud hangs over the people of Cimmeria. While one might assume it is
the pall of the dark weather overhead, eternally threatening grim days
and violent storms, the truth is that the Cimmerians live under a shroud
of impending doom. As the Hyborian Age enters its final centuries, few
people feel it as acutely as the northern barbarian clans. It is a
subconscious sensationmore a subtle, ever-present melancholy than any
true emotion. But it is there, in the blood and bones of every
Cimmerian. They all feel it. They each sense, deep within, the end is
coming.

Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep; Among the shadows of
the tombs his dusky people creep. I speak the Word from the hidden gulfs
that never knew the sun- Send me a servant for my hate, oh scaled and
shining One!

-The Phoenix on the Sword, Robert E. Howard

Dominated by a ruthless theocracy dedicated to
the worship of the serpent-god Set, the Stygians are masters of occult
secrets and diabolic lore. The scholarship is legendary and their
mastery of the magical arts is without equal anywhere in the known
world. Unlike the Hyborian kingdoms the Stygians care little for what
goes on beyond their borders; while the Aquilonians and the Nemedians
measure their worth in castles and glittering armies, the
scholar-priests of Stygia care nothing for such trifles. They learned
long ago that true power lies in knowledge and in pacts with dark powers
older than the cosmos itself.